Word: stimson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white suit and Panama hat, strutted into the White House one day last week for a 15-minute chat with Franklin Roosevelt on New York politics. The talk was so good that Mr. Smith overstayed his time by 30 minutes. In an anteroom Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson and OWI's Elmer Davis cooled their heels until the political talk was over...
Thus wrote precise old (73) Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson to handsome young (40) Major Henry Cabot Lodge. Senator from Massachusetts, just returned from Libya, where he observed* the first U.S. armed forces that made actual contact with the Germans on land. Long (18 years) a reserve officer, energetic Henry Cabot Lodge has a peacetime history of preparedness. Under a directive issued by the President, Major Lodge-and all other legislators in the armed forces-had to resign either from active duty or from their Congressional posts. Last week Senator Lodge, up for reelection, made the Secretary...
...officers and men at Fort Knox cheered Major Lodge's news from the front. Then Senator Lodge looked to Massachusetts where, even with the inadvertent pat from Henry Stimson, he has a tough fight ahead to save his Senate seat from aggressive young Representative Joseph E. Casey (TIME, July...
General Chu and Claire Chennault will certainly have at least 500 planes, and have them soon, if War & Navy Secretaries Stimson and Knox meant what they said in an Order of the Day on the opening of China's sixth year at war: "The Army and Navy of the U.S. salute their comrades-in-arms in China, and join with them in the firm determination to expel the aggressor from every foot of Chinese soil...
...season of honorary degrees is War Production Boss Donald M. Nelson. By this week he had four-from Harvard, Northwestern, Missouri, Pennsylvania Military College. Among others given honorary degrees last week: Mme. Chiang Kai-shek (in absentia), Raymond Gram Swing, Sumner Welles, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Frank Knox, Henry L Stimson, J. Edgar Hoover, Nicnolas Murray Butler...